More than 5,000 people under Wu Xiang's command have successfully arrived at Xiguan Fort. When they arrived, Xiguan Fort had been occupied by our Ming army, and the Battle of Liaoyang was still going on. Without Sun Chuanting's order, Wu Xiang had no contact with the Liaoyang battlefield for the time being.
In the city of Jinzhou, 30,000 Qin troops were already ready for battle. Under Sun Chuanting's order, they marched toward Liaoyang in a mighty manner. The passage between Jinzhou and Zhenjiang Fort has been opened, whether it is Sun Chuanting felt that it was his duty to gather troops from Zhenjiang Fort to annihilate the enemy forces in Liaoyang, or to block enemy reinforcements for the Ming army besieging Liaoyang.
As for facing the Tartars in the field battle, the Ming army would be slightly at a disadvantage. He was not worried. Along the way, there were no walled military forts to defend, not to mention that Xiguan Fort was no longer in the hands of the Tartars. He had 30,000 soldiers. The Qin army can advance and retreat freely.
With the Liaoyang war situation in a stalemate (actually Dai Shan died holding on to the beating), the location of Xiguan Fort suddenly became important, and the goal of Sun Chuanting's army was Xiguan Fort.
"Ignore Jinzhou's soldiers and horses!"
After receiving Yao Chunyong's report, Jiang Wan was silent for a moment: "Before Liaoyang was taken down, we didn't have that much energy to focus on there. It's also a good thing to have Sun Chuanting to share the pressure!"
"I'm just afraid that instead of helping, they're here to take the credit!"
Yao Chunyong has now completely thought and acted from Jiang Wan's point of view: "In fact, they are close at hand, should we save them or not? By the way, Marshal, Cao Wenzhao's side is short of water and food. Outside the city The friendly forces are eyeing him again, and he expressed that he is under a lot of pressure!"
"He will also be stressed?"
Jiang Wan was stunned and laughed: "Tell him that the Liaoyang camp will fully provide food for his few troops, but it depends on whether he can keep the things we transported there. Wu Sangui is not a stickler for rules!"
"hehe……"
Yao Chunyong smiled without a smile. He didn't think that Wu Sangui would be more arrogant than his subordinate Cao Wenzhao. It was seen that Cao Wenzhao was as docile as a sheep in front of him. However, once Out of his sight, outside, this Cao Wenzhao was vicious and bastard.
However, he did make him worry about something.
"Commander, if the soldiers and horses from Jinzhou are there, they must enter Xiguan. Cao Wenzhao has few people, but he is stupid. He really dares to resist the soldiers and horses from Jinzhou!"
"Why are you resisting Jinzhou's soldiers and horses?" Jiang Wan looked at him strangely: "You just said that Jinzhou's soldiers and horses are here to help. Now we don't let them enter the city. That's because we are the masters. This person We have to make it clear. When Sun Chuanting came with his army and Shang Fang showed his sword, he really killed that fool Cao Wenzhao on the spot. I really have nothing to say!"
He sighed: "We have to look at the overall situation, Lao Yao, we can't be so short-sighted. Tell Cao Wenzhao that if Sun Chuanting's army arrives and insists on entering the city, they can give way to Xiguan, but he and his troops must stay. There, your order is to garrison Xiguan Fort, so he should just stay there!"
"Understood!" Yao Chunyong nodded, his face solemn.
Sun Chuanting's 30,000 Qin troops rushed to Xiguan Fort day and night. However, neither the scouts of his army nor the scouts sent by Jiang Wan to Jinzhou found that a group of nearly 5,000 Tatar elite cavalry had taken advantage of the opportunity.
They gathered quietly at night, then took a big detour and headed straight for Zhenwu Fort.
Zhenwu Fort is the gateway to Jinzhou. If Sun Chuanting's army wants to attack Liaoyang, it must leave Zhenwu Fort. Just like Li Zicheng's East Route Army in Phoenix City, even if he advances smoothly all the way, he still has to push his soldiers and horses together.
Only under the wall and fort can it be considered a direct threat to Shengjing.
The location of Zhenwu Fort is more important than a wall fort in Shengjing.
However, these five thousand elite Tartar cavalry were not here to attack Zhenwu Fort. They were quietly waiting for the arrival of Sun Chuanting's leading army on a plain less than forty miles away from Zhenwu Fort.
This was Sun Chuanting's surprise for the Ming army. What he lost in Liaoyang, he wanted to recover from the Ming army in Jinzhou. Moreover, in the battle with the Ming army in Zhenjiang Fort, the soldiers and horses on Houjin's side almost did not occupy
He has never experienced any bargains, and he urgently needs a big victory to boost his morale.
Then, the follow-up troops of the Ming army who came from Jinzhou to Xiguanbao became his best choice.
"Lord Governor, we have spotted an army of Tartars ahead!"
The fog in the early morning was very thick, and the men and horses on both sides were almost face to face before they suddenly discovered their existence. The scouts on both sides felt that this encounter was reasonable and unexpected.
We all knew that there might be enemies nearby, and we all knew that enemies would come at any time, but the battle broke out so quickly that both sides were caught off guard.
In the thick fog, the soldiers and horses of both sides could not even directly judge the size of the other side's army. As soon as the Tartar soldiers and horses discovered the outpost of their own army, they launched a charge without hesitation, directly eliminating the need for harassment, testing and other actions. Sun Chuanting
It is judged that the Tartar cavalry is at least 10,000.
To say that his judgment was correct, in order to achieve the goal of raiding the Ming army, most of the Tartar cavalry consisted of one person with two horses, or even one person with three horses. Whether it was in terms of the scale of the battlefield or the fighting momentum, Sun Chuanting
The judgment is quite accurate.
However, accuracy alone is of no use. As soon as they met, more than a thousand men in the vanguard were rushed to pieces by the Tartar cavalry. If Sun Chuanting had not stabilized the army behind him in time, the chaos caused by the vanguard might have been destroyed.
An expanded army.
In fact, this fully demonstrated his ability to control the Qin army. If it were an ordinary Ming army, an army of 30,000 people would encounter such a cavalry raid in thick fog, with their sight blocked.
, the panic of not knowing how many enemies there are will be infinitely amplified, and it is not a strange thing even for tens of thousands of troops to collapse on the battlefield.
When the Tartar cavalry charging the front army caused huge casualties and roared away again, and even the bows and arrows fired by the assembled Ming army archers could not catch up with them, the soldiers cheered up.
The Chinese army has stabilized its position, which means that the enemy can no longer find an opening to attack them.
To determine the outcome and see who wins, the only way is to kill gongs versus gongs and drums in person!
The 30,000 Qin troops who had not fought against the Tartars since they came out of the border were not timid at all against these rumored to be extremely ferocious Tartars.
They felt that the Tartars had just caught them off guard, and with the Governor's troops, it was only a matter of time to defeat the Tartars in front.
As the commander-in-chief of the first army, Sun Chuanting was not as optimistic as his own soldiers. After discovering that the Tartars who attacked his front army calmly left the battlefield after achieving victory, his heart suddenly sank.
This battle is probably neither an ordinary harassment nor an unexpected encounter.
The Tatars are waiting for themselves here with premeditation.